Today's creepy clown is a Halloween favorite—and a return to the subversive figure clowns represented in the past.

Stephen King's fictional evil clown, 'Pennywise', terrorising the town of Derry, actually takes inspiration from many real-life events.

The figure you’re witnessing is Art the Clown, star of the Terrifier movies. He’s had a surprising success, going from an ...

In 2020, horror novelist Adam Cesare published Clown in a Cornfield, a Midwestern Gothic tale of small-town terror, murderous clowns, naive, big-city interlopers and a lot of butchered teenagers. The ...

He gave the look of the Hell House LLC clowns careful consideration. They don’t speak, and they barely move—when they do, ...

When I was a kid, I never had a clown puppet or a stuffed animal. It makes me think these were an idea manufactured in the 70s or 80s. I think it probably came from John Wayne Gacy being a serial ...

Welcome to Derry finally being here, Stephen King fans have only just learned what inspired the terrifying killer clown, ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - Nine years ago, a “killer clown panic” was set off across the nation after sightings in Greenville, SC made headlines. According to HISTORY, on Aug. 21, 2016, law ...

A clown who kills a former drug lord at a children’s party cannot be a true jester, argue clown leaders seeking to defend their profession at a convention in Mexico City. Clown leader Tomas Morales — ...